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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1911
Page
2
The Saturday paper that all Waterloo reads with enthusiasm and digs into Sunday, offering a comprehensive weekend digest. Readers anticipate coverage, features, and local notices in a format familiar to the community newspaper.
The Evening Courier argues for planned public baths before the season to cool a city of thirty thousand and its workers. It laments heat causing discomfort in stores and factories, notes Cedar River’s flow, and urges utilizing the river and new park to provide relief.
The Waterloo call for public river baths argues a $1000 investment would transform the town into a seasonal health resort with a safe, sand bottom swimming area near Chautauqua Park. It warns against drownings and urges citizens to support a water safety movement for this year.
A Wasgler Bros advertisement touts D D D eczema remedy claiming ten years of complete cures. It asserts Odor of Wintergreen wash and D D D prescription provide instant relief and foundation healing for skin eruptions. The ad invites patrons to visit at 229 Fourth St to discuss merits.
The piece discusses media clashes over reciprocity with Canada noting no Cummins machine, and the Canadian corn argument. It also criticizes Chicago coverage of a model at the Art Institute who refused to pose to a black male, calling it a nasty, regulated scandal and questioning the institute’s dependence on such drawing.
The text rails at men insulting women on Watering streets, mocks a proposed glossary by William A Sunday, and criticizes Iowa state railroad commission rate cuts. It argues express companies lack justification, urging public support for rail or government carriage of packages and calling the industry inflated and unnecessary.
An old apple orchard near Sodus Point is described as bearing the oldest Ifruft variety, claimed to be 81 years old. The fragment notes the orchard location and age without additional context or details.
Iowa editorials reflect on good roads goals and political integrity. Pieces from Waterloo Cedar Falls and Davenport discuss transport, governance, and public utilities while urging practical progress and accountability. The Cedar Falls and Burlington columns weigh in on state branding, water purity, and civic initiatives.
The essay reflects on a slain princess and a park sighting of a plain couple in love. It contrasts wealth and luxury with simple happiness, arguing genuine joy comes from love, not riches, and invites readers to reexamine value beyond status.
The piece argues that high powered pumps endanger game and threaten hunting’s future. It cites state powers over wildlife management and notes backing from Dr. William T. Hornaday and G. O. Shields in the fight against deadly guns.
The piece argues advertising should promote real goods not crowds. It warns a balloon program or banjo act brings spectators but not steady buyers. It urges a $5,000 roads appropriation and $25,000 for a publicity bureau, plus stocked goods, factories, dairy farms, and capable farmers to convert attention into opportunity.
La Porte City to receive a Rock Island railroad depot in the current year. Bids for construction are being received and opened soon. The $8,000 building will be placed on the site selected last year beside the city park, marking a major early improvement.
J F Cass and family arrived from Waterloo on Tuesday and opened the big Sumner house for the spring and summer. Cass plans to spend much of the season at the residence and focus on local affairs and visits.
An old advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as pleasant to take and effective, purifying the blood and strengthening nerves. It promotes liquid form and Sarsatabs tablets for overall health.
The family, short on health, plans to spend spring in Waterloo at their summer mansion. Mrs. J. C. Koeneke and the baby join for health, drawn by the pure milk said to be abundant there. Ernest Cass is also home during school vacation week, signaling a reawakening of domestic life at the big house.
Glenn W. Cummings of Maxwell Iowa returned a marriage license after claiming Leong L. Trulock of Des Moines refused to marry him. He said he had arranged the wedding and even hired a minister but the bride chose not to consent, so he offered to cancel the license and go home.
Geo E Bell a former Nickel Plate conductor from Fort Wayne Indiana warns railroad workers about kidney and bladder damage from years in railroading. He says twenty years of service caused constant back and hip pain and painful bladder action but Foley Kidney Pills improved him after one bottle and cured him after four bottles. He now recommends the remedy to fellow railroaders.
The widow of Walter McNulty former resident of Marshalltown will sue First National Bank of Belle Plaine in Banton county district court at Vinton for 20000 damages. She acts as administratrix of her husband's estate after his accidental death while employed at the Iowa Central boiler shops.
In a complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission Des Moines publishers and Senator Lafayette Young claim Wisconsin and Minnesota print paper freight rates to Des Moines are unreasonable and discriminatory. They seek rate adjustment and reparations from Great Northern and other carriers.
Minneapolis Journal discusses proposals to ban automatic and pump shotguns for hunting ducks and other game birds. It notes bird lovers push for limits, citing decline of wild birds and describing automatic shotguns as nearly as dangerous as machine guns.
After moving to Belle Plaine in 1907 a man was struck by a cornice fragment near the First National bank on February 26 1909 and died two weeks later. A related case remains set for trial on April 4 focusing on the building plan construction and inspection. Waterloo schools plan to reconvene for the spring term next Monday with no changes to schedule. Prof A T Hukill and the board of education see no need to alter session length or time.
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